Bishop leads Altschuler in recount

After being down by more than 1,000 votes just a week ago, incumbent Congressman Tim Bishop, D-Southampton, has taken a 206 vote lead over Republican challenger Randy Altschuler in the battle for the first congressional district.
As of Monday night, counting had been completed for the towns of East Hampton, Riverhead, Shelter Island, Smithtown, Southampton and ...

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Hi. with all due respect, its not a recount. The actual recount/audit showed no change to the in-person machine tallies. Its a count of the absentee ballots. As of the end of day yesterday, Tim Bishop showed a lead of 206 votes, coming back from a deficit of almost 400 votes. There was never a reported deficit of 1000 votes. He was up between 3 and 4 thousand votes on election night which was quickly adjusted to almost 400 down, which he has steadily crept back up to 206 vote lead with each passing day of absentee-vote counting every since.

This will be a good test for the viability of the new voting system. In the final analysis there will be paper ballots that can be perused and counted. I’m hoping that this process will help declare a clear winner. We all would like to have confidence in the voting method.

yes angry new yorket, let’s ignore the vote and just pick Randy because you think it’s a good idea and clearly you are a genius…and Kevin O perhaps it’s not mentioned about military ballots because it’s a lie…

I commented on the hamptons.com piece correcting the factual error and gave more information on all the misleading information and they have not let my comment be published. They printed that RA piece without a shred of analysis and are leaving it like that. So much for that site man. Who needs it?

The Altschuler campaign’s allegation about military ballots should rise or fall on its merits. I have no idea if it’s true (hope it’s not), but including an assertion like this in the LIB story would’ve been legitimate. For years I’ve read straight news pieces that include a section starting “But critics charge…” or “But some say,” and often as the “last word” of the story. Wish I had a dime for every time a story touting good news (success of the Iraq surge, Giuliani’s anti-crime policies, welfare reform, etc.) ended with some bone of reassurance for liberal ego’s. Anyway, Gore pulled the same stunt on military ballots in Florida – complete with high fives from his sleazy lawyers.

Go Bishop!! It’s a little fishy, that Bishop was up on Election night, by 3,500 votes, then 3 days later, he was down, just under 400 votes. Um… a little foul play in action! I think there should be a full hand recount! That is the way to ensure the integrity of the electoral process. Randy “The Outsourcer” Altschuler, who tried to buy the election from the beginning, by using his dirty money, to distort the Congressman, and future Congressman’s record! By the way, Altschuler, cowardly, was against a Full Hand Recount. I bet he changes his mind, how that the he is trailing. The Congressman has done so much good for his district, and the country,with his voting record, just in the last Congress. Some recent examples are: Healthcare Reform, Wall St. Reform, and his vote for legislation, that became law, the gives $30 Billion in loans to Small Business’. They are going to be administered by Community Banks. The law also gives tax cuts to Small Business’.

Anyone that voted for the “Outsourcer” is UNAMERICAN. He shipped 10,000 jobs oversees, that could have gone to American workers. He also wants to Privitize Medicare. The Bishop campaign sent a mailing out about that, which it sights a Washington Post article. They unwisely did NOT turn that into a TV Commercial, like they did the Outsourcing mailing. They also should have debunked the Outsourcer, and Republican lies, that the $500 Million in cuts to Medicare, would hurt seniors. The AARP, which represents Seniors, would never have endored the Healthcare Reform legislation, that became law, if it hurt Seniors. The Obama Administration is also at fault for not debunking the vicious LIE to SCARE seniors!